Books: Angry Asia

BETWEEN TEARS AND LAUGHTER — Lin Yufang—John Day ($2.50).

Lin Yutang wrote this book after Frank lin Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid...

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